Every class is unfit to govern.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.